Wu
1. Tracing roots and ancestors
1. The surname Wu existed in ancient times. First, some of Shun's descendants were granted the title of Yu. Because the sounds of "Yu" and "Wu" are similar, Shun's descendants had the surname Wu. First, there was Wu Quan during the reign of Emperor Zhuanxu, and there was also the Wu family after that. One is that during the reign of Emperor Shaokang, there was a master archer named Wu He, who later had the surname Wu.
2. It comes from the surname Ji and takes the country as its surname. It is a direct descendant of the Xuanyuan family of the Yellow Emperor. During the Shang Dynasty, Huangdi's 12th generation grandson Gu Gong Danfu (Taiwang of Zhou) established the Zhou tribe. The Taiwang had three sons, among whom the youngest son Ji Li was quite talented and gave birth to his son Ji Chang. When Ji Chang was born, Sheng Rui appeared, so the Taiwang chose Ji Chang to take over the throne. The eldest son Taibo and Zhongyong, the eldest son of the Taiwang, knew that their father wanted to pass the throne to Ji Li first and then to Ji Chang, so they decided to give up the throne of their own accord and went south to Jingman together (the Zhou people were hostile to the Chu State). call). Taibo and Zhongyong brought the advanced culture of the Central Plains to the relatively backward Jiangnan at that time, and were elected as rulers by the local indigenous people, known as Juwu. After Tai Bo's death, Zhong Yong succeeded him. After King Wu of Zhou (Ji Chang was King Wen, and his son Ji Fa was King Wu) destroyed the Shang Dynasty, Zhong Yong's third grandson Zhou Zhang became a prince, the country was renamed Wu, and the Taibo was posthumously named Uncle Wu. By the time Zhongyong's 19th generation, Sun Shoumeng, became king, he established his capital in present-day Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Shoumeng's fourth son Ji Zha was supposed to inherit the throne, but he avoided it and fled to Yanling to make a living by farming. After that, the descendants of Wu Wang Shoumeng were divided into two groups: one developed politically, and famous kings such as Wu Wang Helu and Wu Wang Fucha appeared; the other was Jizha and his descendants who developed independently and multiplied in number, forming the Most people with the surname Wu today. After the State of Wu was destroyed by the State of Yue, its descendants took the country as their surname and called it the Wu family.